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Mean root cause of murder



How many more must die? Mistah Speakah? How many more? (Old call from the well in the Massachusetts State House) Every cop is still a gumshoe "And all the sinners saints" When will our politicians recognize and denounce the mean root cause of the murder of the four Dallas police officers and the one DART police officer and the wounding of the others last Thursday night? No, it's not poverty, a lack of jobs, or education, that causes ISIS.
The mean root cause is the continual mollycoddling of violence and the lack of any meaningful reproach given these groups, who march around calling death to cops while protected by our cops, from our weak willed and cowardly national leadership, including our AWOL AG Loretta Lynch, and the caitiffs found among our local pols who fear that the lens currently held by these thuggish and violent rabble rousers might be turned on them instead of our cops, or, that they might be tarred with that boiling hot racist brush held in the other hand from the one holding a sign inciting murder or gun by the members of these same groups lionized by the likes of Obama and Hillary. For a craven filthy rich politician, especially in that critical year or two leading up to a re-election for a senator or every year for a congressman, silence is a more astute reflection of bravery than a firm principled stand for law and and order or, heaven forbid, daring to walk in the hot thankless shoes of a police officer, daring to ride in a black and white as a guest, or least of all his or her showing up at a police station to say hello. The latter act could result in the office holder being seen and recognized, especially by the BLM crowd. See being tarred above by that hot brush, a no no for the hustings. Today there is an unwritten rule abroad in the land which has been cast in stone under President Barack Hussein Obama: A solon must sidestep every possible chance to broaden his understanding of real police work and the who and what cops do and must deal with because it would shatter the liberal shibboleths so eagerly constructed and gingerly nurtured in the bulwarks of the main stream press like the NY Times, the WaPo, and that world famous and thoroughly honest liberal mouthpiece, The Boston Globe. You see, in today's Globe every cop is still an overweight 'gumshoe' and a denizen of the donut emporium just as the liberals love to see them depicted, Whitey Bulger was a real "Robin Hood" who kept drugs out of South Boston instead of murdering anyone that didn't pay him to sell them there and Whitey buried them in Tenean Beach in Neponsett, and "all the sinners saints."

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Then there's liberal TV land where race hustlers like the notorious Rev. Al Sharpton, perpetrator of the great Tawana Brawley fraud of hoax of a sham, actually has an entertainment show on lowbrow MSNBC where the likes of hog calling Honest Chris Matthews plies his utterly fictive trade; while over on ABC, the Always Bill Clinton network, the entertainer and fraudster George Stephanopoulos, a Clinton Fund donor to the tune of $75,000, always claims to be the net neutral "news” man--particularly when he's openly shilling for Hillary. Nope, you'll never get a liberal pol hanging around a police station unless he's doing a perp walk, then his education in how cop's work will come a bit too late in his life of grifting indolence and heavy jowls. Until then, your elected official, and most liberal talking heads, will believe that every cop is racist because our current administration, Black Lives Matter, Slate, Mother Jones and Al Sharpton tells them so. And just as sadly, because there are so few folks with national headlines who have the guts to show and explain the statistics to the contrary, this stereotype persists. But what do I know? I'm just a retired cop who was pronounced dead on the job on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles from injuries I sustained in the line of duty. But as most liberals have told me, that puts me "too close to the problem," to be able to discuss it. After last Thursday in Dallas, maybe these same liberals can tell that to the widows and orphans and lost partners of those murdered in the single worst night for cops since 9/11. They are my brothers and sisters; my friends. They are those I rushed to save when I heard, "All Units on All Frequencies Stand-By, Officer Down, Needs Help!" over the radio in my black and white. And they are the police officers whose funerals I still attend and will attend until I can't walk. May St. Michael The Archangel escort them into Heaven and show them to their place at the Heavenly table.


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John Burtis is a former Broome County, NY firefighter, a retired Santa Monica, CA, police officer. He obtained his BA in European History at Boston University and is fluent in German. He resides in NH with his wife, Betsy.

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